{"id":140079,"date":"2022-06-02T03:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/spacex-to-begin-launching-new-shell-of-starlink-satellites-in-july"},"modified":"2022-06-02T03:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:02:20","slug":"spacex-to-begin-launching-new-shell-of-starlink-satellites-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/spacex-to-begin-launching-new-shell-of-starlink-satellites-in-july","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to begin launching new \u2018shell\u2019 of Starlink satellites in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-to-begin-launching-new-shell-of-starlink-satellites-in-july2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX could begin launching the fourth of five orbital \u2018shells\u2019 of its first Starlink constellation as early as July, according to a report from a reliable source of SpaceX information.<\/p>\n<p>The initial report tweeted on May 20th by reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alexphysics13\">Alejandro Alcantarilla<\/a> claimed that SpaceX was preparing to start launching \u201cGroup 3\u201d of its first 4408-satellite Starlink constellation as early as July 2022. Less than a week later, those claims were confirmed when SpaceX applied for communications permits known as \u201cspecial temporary authority\u201d licenses or STAs for a launch known as \u201cStarlink Group 3\u22121\u201d no earlier than late June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGroup 3\u201d refers to one of five orbital \u201cshells\u201d that make up SpaceX\u2019s 4408-satellite first-generation Starlink constellation. Each shell can be thought of more or less as, well, a shell \u2013 a thin layer of satellites more or less evenly distributed around the entire sphere of the Earth. Shells mainly differ by two measures: orbital inclination (the angle between a given orbit and the Earth\u2019s equator) and orbital altitude (the distance from the orbit to the ground).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX could begin launching the fourth of five orbital \u2018shells\u2019 of its first Starlink constellation as early as July, according to a report from a reliable source of SpaceX information. The initial report tweeted on May 20th by reporter Alejandro Alcantarilla claimed that SpaceX was preparing to start launching \u201cGroup 3\u201d of its first 4408-satellite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}